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by tristramb 2y ago
The 68040 CPU had two rounding modes to support interval arithmetic. From the M68040 User’s Manual ( https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/reference-manual/MC68040UM.pdf ): "The processor supports four rounding mode
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by tristramb 2y ago
Surely it should have been called the 'cornfield interceptor'?
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by tristramb 2y ago
Online presentation from last year by Will Hawkes the lead author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_alwE7b1do
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by tristramb 2y ago
Hoverflies migrate in vast numbers and they feed on vast numbers of greenfly. Your farmers need only worry if they stop.
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by tristramb 2y ago
The vast complexity of the 21st Century has still not managed to land a single person on the Moon.
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by tristramb 2y ago
No
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by tristramb 2y ago
Think of a cryptic crossword puzzle. It consists of a grid of overlapping slots and for each slot there is a clue. The question that sheaf theory addresses is what constraints do you have to put on the clues to ensure that the overall puzzl
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by tristramb 2y ago
Warning from an old Usenet fungus newsgroup: "If you collect fungi to eat you should always take three samples: one for the pot, one for the doctor and one for the coroner."
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by tristramb 2y ago
It might be some form of metal corrosion. The change from metal to metal oxide can be accompanied by an increase in volume which can lead to some very fanciful structures.
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by tristramb 2y ago
The decision to prefix some 'High Street's with the name of the local town or village was probably taken by the General Post Office in order to reduce ambiguity in addressing letters. They did something similar with the names of
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by tristramb 2y ago
Exactly! The article is asking the wrong question. Ancient people would have been painting and marking all suitable surfaces in their environment, including each other. Just like modern day graffiti artists (and tatooists) do. But only tho
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by tristramb 2y ago
"In Germany, if you take a loan to open up a business, you can pretty much ruin your whole life" So instead you ruin other people's lives?
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by tristramb 2y ago
Preprint: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa49763-24.pdf
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by tristramb 3y ago
Written by AI?
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by tristramb 3y ago
'Planting' trees is totally unnecessary. Leave a patch of land untouched for a few decades and trees will grow up all by themselves. The real cost is not the seedlings nor the planting, it is the land.
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by tristramb 3y ago
The yellow colour of gold is one of the best known relativistic effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_quantum_chemistry
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by tristramb 3y ago
Why don't Americans use the word "greed" when referring to such behaviour?
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by tristramb 3y ago
I think Peter Medewar once said of James Watson and Francis Crick that "they have done somthing worth being arrogant about". The same applies to Dijkstra. You could start with this account of the Dijkstra-Zonneveld Algol 60 compil
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by tristramb 3y ago
The use of these for knitting the fingers of gloves is obviously correct. It explains so many things about them: Their distribution (northern Europe - where you might need gloves). The knobs (to loop the wool round). The differing sizes
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by tristramb 3y ago
Those books weren't much use in learning how to use the software. They were just easier to produce. They never explained the ideas behind the software. They just showed you the user interface. They treated everyone as if they didn&#x
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by tristramb 3y ago
It s probably also illegal. They could prosecute you for trespassing on the rail way if you are not supervised. I used to commute into London before Covid and there were times when we were delayed so long that I thought we might have to re
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by tristramb 3y ago
The Galaxy screensaver from the XScreenSaver Collection shows star streams rather nicely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBprAm9w-Fo
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by tristramb 3y ago
The original specimen of Rhea pennata (Darwin's Rhea) was cooked and served up as a meal before Darwin realised that it was a new species: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s_rhea#History_of_the...
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by tristramb 3y ago
My thought was that the quartz crystal might provide a solid surface for catalysing interesting chemical reactions that might lead to life.
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by tristramb 3y ago
I remember reading many years ago that the Orion Nebula could be expected to full of loose planets that have ejected by newly formed solar-systems as they settle down. It didn't mention anything about binary planets, though.
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by tristramb 3y ago
Must have been one of these https://www.savagechickens.com/2023/09/nobody-likes-my-movie...
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by tristramb 3y ago
Prussian imperialism was failing from 1914 when they failed to reach Paris and force France to surrender. Moltke the Younger recognised this at the time, but it took 4 years for rest of the German High Command to see it, and for the Allies
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by tristramb 3y ago
"If you collect mushrooms for eating, you should always take 3 samples: one for the pot, one for the doctor and one for the coroner" Advice given on a fungus identification forum.
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by tristramb 3y ago
I think it probably took an awkward misfit to create the GNU propject and the GPL in the first place. I am reminded of "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to hims
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by tristramb 3y ago
Just to get things back into proportion, Betelgeuse is one of several hundred pulsating red supergiants visible with the unaided eye, binoculars or a small telescope (here are some around the Double Cluster in Perseus: https://ww

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